Prashant Loyalka

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Prashant Loyalka is a scholar working on Education, Safety Research and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Prashant Loyalka has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Education, 28 papers in Safety Research and 28 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Prashant Loyalka's work include School Choice and Performance (37 papers), Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities (27 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (26 papers). Prashant Loyalka is often cited by papers focused on School Choice and Performance (37 papers), Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities (27 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (26 papers). Prashant Loyalka collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Russia. Prashant Loyalka's co-authors include Scott Rozelle, James Chu, Yaojiang Shi, Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Martín Carnoy, Binzhen Wu, Hongmei Yi, Hongbin Li and Guirong Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Management Science.

In The Last Decade

Prashant Loyalka

89 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States

2021 73 citations Prashant Loyalka, Ou Lydia Liu et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Prashant Loyalka United States	28	987	540	406	341	329	95	2.1k
John Jerrim United Kingdom	27	1.2k 1.2×	670 1.2×	117 0.3×	278 0.8×	190 0.6×	149	2.3k
Anne West United Kingdom	31	2.0k 2.0×	983 1.8×	115 0.3×	554 1.6×	370 1.1×	154	2.9k
Jonah E. Rockoff United States	20	2.5k 2.5×	661 1.2×	273 0.7×	107 0.3×	129 0.4×	40	3.6k
Dan Goldhaber United States	37	5.1k 5.2×	566 1.0×	444 1.1×	173 0.5×	243 0.7×	238	5.8k
Anna Vignoles United Kingdom	31	1.9k 1.9×	1.1k 2.0×	216 0.5×	355 1.0×	383 1.2×	108	3.2k
C. Kirabo Jackson United States	21	1.7k 1.8×	485 0.9×	312 0.8×	119 0.3×	149 0.5×	56	2.3k
Gary T. Henry United States	32	2.1k 2.1×	477 0.9×	197 0.5×	216 0.6×	66 0.2×	99	3.6k
Scott Carrell United States	18	1.3k 1.4×	508 0.9×	411 1.0×	56 0.2×	123 0.4×	47	2.3k
Daniel Koretz United States	24	2.0k 2.0×	241 0.4×	208 0.5×	148 0.4×	92 0.3×	99	2.7k
Carolyn J. Hill United States	18	933 0.9×	253 0.5×	164 0.4×	135 0.4×	46 0.1×	34	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Prashant Loyalka

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Prashant Loyalka

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Abbey, Cody, Yue Ma, Dorien Emmers, et al.. (2024). Generalizable evidence that computer assisted learning improves student learning: A systematic review of education technology in China. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 100161–100161. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Lijin, Andrew Ho, Prashant Loyalka, et al.. (2024). Heterogeneity of Item-Treatment Interactions Masks Complexity and Generalizability in Randomized Controlled Trials. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. 18(4). 854–877. 7 indexed citations

Bettinger, Eric, et al.. (2022). Diminishing Marginal Returns to Computer‐Assisted Learning. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 42(2). 552–570. 6 indexed citations

Loyalka, Prashant, Ou Lydia Liu, Guirong Li, et al.. (2021). Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(7). 892–904. 73 indexed citations breakdown →

Loyalka, Prashant, Ou Lydia Liu, Guirong Li, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(7). 955–955. 3 indexed citations

Mistree, Dinsha, et al.. (2021). Instructional interventions for improving COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, behaviors: Evidence from a large-scale RCT in India. Social Science & Medicine. 276. 113846–113846. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Huan, Sarah‐Eve Dill, Huan Zhou, et al.. (2021). Health, economic, and social implications of COVID‐19 for China's rural population. Agricultural Economics. 52(3). 495–504. 21 indexed citations

Li, Guirong, et al.. (2020). Large-scale international assessments of learning outcomes: balancing the interests of multiple stakeholders. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. 43(2). 198–213. 1 indexed citations

Bettinger, Eric, et al.. (2020). Does EdTech Substitute for Traditional Learning? Experimental Estimates of the Educational Production Function. NBER Working Paper No. 26967.. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2 indexed citations

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Ma, Yue, Robert W. Fairlie, Prashant Loyalka, & Scott Rozelle. (2020). Isolating the "Tech" from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China. NBER Working Paper No. 26953.. National Bureau of Economic Research. 3 indexed citations

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Fairlie, Robert W. & Prashant Loyalka. (2020). Schooling and Covid-19: lessons from recent research on EdTech. npj Science of Learning. 5(1). 13–13. 15 indexed citations

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Chu, James, et al.. (2019). Stuck in Place? A Field Experiment on the Effects of Reputational Information on Student Evaluations. Social Forces. 98(4). 1578–1612.

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Loyalka, Prashant, et al.. (2019). The impact of teacher professional development programs on student achievement in rural China: evidence from Shaanxi Province. Journal of Development Effectiveness. 11(2). 105–131. 21 indexed citations

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Chu, James, et al.. (2018). Stereotype Threat and Educational Tracking: A Field Experiment in Chinese Vocational High Schools. Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 4. 2 indexed citations

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Loyalka, Prashant, et al.. (2017). Absolute Versus Comparative Advantage: Consequences for Gender Gaps in STEM and College Access. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Loyalka, Prashant, Xiaoting Huang, Linxiu Zhang, et al.. (2015). The Impact of Vocational Schooling on Human Capital Development in Developing Countries : Evidence from China. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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Loyalka, Prashant, Sean Sylvia, Chengfang Liu, James Chu, & Scott Rozelle. (2015). Teaching to the Tails: Teacher Performance Pay and the Distribution of Student Achievement.. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. 1 indexed citations

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Loyalka, Prashant, Lan Liu, Gong Chen, & Xiaoying Zheng. (2014). The Cost of Disability in China. Demography. 51(1). 97–118. 61 indexed citations

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Loyalka, Prashant, et al.. (2014). Factors affecting the quality of engineering education in the four largest emerging economies. Higher Education. 68(6). 977–1004. 34 indexed citations

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Carnoy, Martín, et al.. (2013). University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy. Stanford University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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